Bundesliga bang: DFL boss Christian Seifert before retreat - "New professional chapter"

Christian Seifert will let his contract as chairman of the German Football League expire and will stop in the foreseeable future, as he himself announced.

• Christian Seifert

  does not

  extend his expiring contract with the

  DFL

  .

• This decision comes as a surprise,

  Seifert

  confirmed it in a message.

• Since 2005 he has been chairman of the German Football League.

Update from October 26th, 9:40 a.m.:

Managing Director

will leave

the

after his contract expires in June 2022.

As the Rastatter writes in his declaration, “these are demanding times that require clarity and

.

That applies to the DFL as a whole and also to my professional ambitions ”.

“In two years I would like to

open

a

” said the 51-year-old on Monday morning on the DFL homepage.

His decision is "already important now, so that the Supervisory Board is given

the opportunity at an

to incorporate this fact into considerations about the future organization of DFL GmbH".

Personal statement from # DFL managing director Christian Seifert ➡️ https://t.co/pzIvfKbPWz pic.twitter.com/DpFH2ZLB3X

- DFL German Football League (@DFL_Official) October 26, 2020

Bundesliga hammer: Christian Seifert will retire as DFL chair in 2022

First report from October 25th, 10:30 p.m .:

Frankfurt am Main -

will apparently no longer be head of the

(DFL).

As the

reports, the 51-year-old will not extend his contract, which will expire on June 30, 2022.

Bundesliga: Christian Seifert will probably end as head of the DFL in 2022

obviously wants to

look for a new challenge.

The Baden resident has been the chairman of the DFL management board and, in this role, also vice-president of the German Football Association * (DFB).

The 36 professional clubs of the

*

are

in the

.

Among other things, this involves the distribution of the TV money.

Overall, this news comes as a surprise.

had made no real hints in the past to break up in 2022.

So far this year Seifert has been very busy.

The

* posed and continues to pose great challenges for professional football.

Bundesliga: Christian Seifert before retreat - role model during the Corona crisis

The

* was one of the first sports leagues to resume play in May and thus became a role model for the

*,

& Co was taken.

In the spring, the critical voices grew louder, according to which

once again claiming a special role and had been granted a privilege by politics.

All in all,

however, the DFL's

convincing

.

Overall,

brought

the Bundesliga * to the much-cited next level, which is impressively clear from a total of 14 record sales in series.

Under his direction, the marketing of TV rights rose from 400 million euros per season to more than one billion euros.

There was more than just praise from the soccer fan camp.

Ultras in particular regularly criticize Seifert for the advancing commercialization of football.

All this can

from 2022 now probably be all the same, while the DFL faces a difficult task to occupy the office again.